Miss Mayblunt

??Something new, Edna?? exclaimed Miss Mayblunt, with lorgnette directed toward a magnificent cluster of diamonds that sparkled, that almost sputtered, in Edna?s hair, just over the center of her forehead.

?Quite new; ?brand? new, in fact; a present from my husband. It arrived this morning from New York.??

?Kate Chopin (1851?1904), from The Awakening, 1899.